Apache CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Speakers

Ian Rae

Founder & CEO, CloudOps

Ian Rae

Keynote

The Cloud Cosmos: a CloudStack Odyssey

Will Stevens

Lead Developer, CloudOps

Will Stevens

Keynote Contributor and the State of CI

Intro to the Collab and state of CI, including an explanation of how we are currently working and ideas on how we test CloudStack.

Mike Tutkowski

Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire

Mike Tutkowski

Enabling Fast and Efficient Backend Snapshots for XenServer

Learn how to leverage primary storage in CloudStack (when using managed storage) to take fast and efficient volume snapshots for XenServer. Traditionally, volume snapshots are stored on secondary storage. This process of copying data from primary to secondary storage acts more like a backup than a snapshot. In this new model, we are able to make use of a SAN to quickly take snapshots. These snapshots can then be used to create new CloudStack volumes and templates. The volumes that are created from these snapshots are also performed in a fast and efficient manner by leveraging a SAN.

Presentation with Syed Ahmed

Paul Angus

VP Technology & Cloud Architect, ShapeBlue

Paul Angus

Containers as a Service on CloudStack

Cloud native applications running in containerised environments look set to create a paradigm shift in the way compute resources are consumed. However, this presents challenges (both technical and business) to Cloud Service providers who have already invested heavily in Infrastructure as a Service offerings based on the virtual machine model. Paul will discuss these challenges, look at the services that end-users will demand in a containerised world and how major public cloud providers have overcome these challenges. He will then preview an exciting new project that gives a simple method for operators to deploy Containers as a Service to their end-users, based on Apache CloudStack.

Nara Rajagopalan

CEO, Accelerite

Nara Rajagopalan

Keynote Contributor

Coming soon

Funs Kessen

Strategic Advisor, Datera

Funs Kessen

Keynote Contributor & The Contrasting Three of Storage

When building and evolving a cloud there are several inherent problems people run into when growing their platform. The continues battle, next to the network, appears to be finding a decent way to scale and maintain storage without storage becoming either the biggest cost, limiter of scale, driver of operational efforts or bottleneck of a platform. When at Schuberg Philis we went through several designs which all had their pros and cons which we’ll go over, but also trying to answer the question of what’s really missing.

Sowmya Krishnan

Chief Product Engineer, Accelerite

Sowmya Krishnan

How Elastic Is Your Cloud?

It’s an often asked question from a cloud admin as to how many resources can one create in a cloud managed by CloudStack. How far can I stretch my cloud and yet provide quality of service for my users? For example, how many Virtual Machines can be created in a host? How many LB rules can be configured in a network? How many firewall rules can be configured in a VR? What is the kind of bandwidth one gets when there are few thousand firewall rules configured? Or even how many snapshots can be created for a volume.
Answers to many of the above questions have been inferred by running Scale tests while there are others that can be controlled by using Global configuration parameters too. This talk addresses some of these questions and presents the results and findings for many of these scalability aspects based on performance and scale tests carried out using both real hardware and simulation.

Tim Mackey

Senior Technical Evangelist, BlackDuck Software

Tim Mackey

Secure App Deployment

Traditionally, when we've spoken about application security in clouds, we've tended to focus on issues related to key management, firewalls and data access. The reality is, secure application deployment principles extend from the infrastructure layer through application and include application packaging. In this session we'll first look at some of the recent hypervisor and network capabilities which should be front of mind for CloudStack deployments. Then we'll explore some application packaging paradigms which can help reduce the security risk for tenant workloads.

Syed Ahmed

Software Developer, CloudOps

Syed Ahmed

Enabling Fast and Efficient Backend Snapshots for XenServer

Bharat Kumar

Senior Product Engineer, Accelerite

Bharat Kumar

Next level CI

This talk will give details on the current CI role in Cloudstack and also the road map for taking it to the next level.

Presentation with Pavan Kumar Bandarupally

John Burwell

VP of Software Engineering, ShapeBlue

John Burwell

When the Cloud is a Rockin': High Availability in Apache CloudStack

CloudStack currently provides a variety bespoke high availability mechanisms for resources such as virtual machines, hosts, and virtual routers. Each of these implementations duplicates the HA check/recovery cycle, as well as, concurrency, persistence, and clustering required manage high available for any CloudStack resource. The High Availability Resource Management Service has been developed to consolidate these concerns -- providing a robust, extensible HA mechanism. Using this service, plugins only need to define health check, activity check, and fence operations.

Kris Sterckx

Engineering Manager, Nuage Networks

Kris Sterckx

Nuage Networks Embraces Apache CloudStack

Nuage Networks embraces CloudStack! Kris will talk about how Nuage Networks SDN is enriching Apache CloudStack Networking in a truly distributed and scalable way. Newly added Nuage SDN-backed support includes Shared Networks, Load Balancing and Internal DNS. Other than these new capabilities, Kris and Urvi will outline newly proposed Core extensions, addressing network operations concurrency, and present a new generic Vpc Inline Load Balancer plugin.

Presentation with Urvi Shah

Rajkumar Thiurmalaivelu Murugiah

Senior Product Engineer, Accelerite

Rajkumar Thiurmalaivelu Murugiah

Auto Provision, Configuration and LifeCycle management of NetScaler Appliances for guest networks in CloudStack

This technical enhancement in CloudStack will help admins by removing the dependency of provision NetScaler devices and then add to CloudStack to provide NetScaler Network services for the guest networks in. With this feature, the admin can register the NetScaler VPX templates to CloudStack. When a guest network requires NetScaler box, then CloudStack can provision and automatically configure a new NS VPX from the registerd template within the CloudStack infra and manage the lifecycle of the appliance. This will help the admin reduce the hardwork of externally managing the lifecycle of the NetScaler box and while the same cloud infra will be used.

Pavan Kumar Bandarupally

Senior Product Engineer, Accelerite

Pavan Kumar Bandarupally

Next Level CI for CloudStack

This talk will give details on the current CI role in Cloudstack and also the road map for taking it to the next level.

Presentation with Bharat Kumar

Urvi Shah

CloudStack Engineer, Nuage Networks

Urvi Shah

Nuage Networks Embraces Apache CloudStack

Nuage Networks embraces CloudStack! The presentation will be about how Nuage Networks SDN is enriching Apache CloudStack Networking in a truly distributed and scalable way. Newly added Nuage SDN-backed support includes Shared Networks, Load Balancing and Internal DNS. Other than these new capabilities, Urvi and Kris will outline newly proposed Core extensions, addressing network operations concurrency, and present a new generic Vpc Inline Load Balancer plugin.

Presentation with Kris Sterckx

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Funs Kessen

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